About Professor Koslowski

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Professor Koslowski’s primary teaching and research interests are in the field of international relations dealing with international organization, European integration, international migration, information technology, and homeland security. He is the author of Migrants and Citizens: Demographic Change in the European States System (Cornell University Press, 2000); editor of International Migration and the Globalization of Domestic Politics (Routledge, 2005) and co-editor (with David Kyle) of Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives (John Hopkins University Press, 2001). His articles have appeared in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, The Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, The Cambridge Journal of International Studies and The Brown Journal of World Affairs. Prior to arriving at the University at Albany, Professor Koslowski taught at Rutgers University – Newark. He has held fellowships of the Transatlantic Academy at the German Marshall Fund, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Center of International Studies at Princeton University and the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University. His research has been supported by grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

Selected Publications

• Koslowski, Rey. "The Battle for the Brains: Why Immigration Policy is not Enough to Attract the Highly Skilled," with Jeroen Doomernik and Dietrich Thraenhardt, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Brussels Forum Paper Series, March 2009.
• Koslowski, Rey. "Human Migration and the Conceptualization of Pre-modern World Politics," International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Sept. 2002), 375-399.
• Koslowski, Rey. "A Constructivist Approach to Understanding the European Union as a Federal Polity," Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Fall 1999), 561-78.
  
• Koslowski, Rey. "Understanding Change in International Politics: The Soviet Empire's Demise and the International System," with Friedrich Kratochwil, International Organization, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Spring 1994), pp. 215-247.